Daily News | Urban Art Gallery’s Caribbean Creatives Art Show celebrates a community within a community
Karl Morris will tell you he has no background as an artist. He simply loves art.But that didn’t stop Morris, who works for the U.S. Postal Service as a letter carrier, to open the Urban Art Gallery in West Philadelphia.Morris, whose first name is Kalphonse, often goes by Karl. He opened the gallery at 262 S. 52nd St. in 2013 and celebrated its 10th-year anniversary earlier this year.
“I would sit at the front window on Friday nights and wave for people to come inside and take a look.” On Saturday, the Urban Art Gallery will open its Caribbean Creatives Art Show to celebrate Caribbean Heritage Month. The show is the brainchild of Erice Reid, an educator and artist who was born in Jamaica and came to the United States at age 11. She partnered with Morris to present the first Caribbean Creatives show in 2017.Reid, who works for the New Jersey Department of Education’s Office of Special Education and lives in Delaware County, has been an artist all her life. She said she comes from a family of creative people who were artists or musicians, and she is a writer and has also made jewelry.
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